Beautiful day outside!!!!

Today was our first full day of outdoor practice and it was absolutely gorgeous!!!  Had a nice meeting before hand, got to congratulate Rich and Dira on great performances at nationals this week!!!  Pretty cool to have a national champion on the team!!!!  Also, got some bad news though...team is really struggling in the classroom!! def got my work cut out for me!!!

Outside today we just warmed up and did some acceleration work.  Then we headed into our gorgeous new weight room!!!!!  Its huge and amazing!!!!!!  Just a little excited about it haha!  Maggie still doesn't want me doing lower body lifting since my knee is still a pain...She thinks it may be my meniscus...annoying!  Did upper and ab lifting instead.  First we had quite a bench work out to do.  sets of 10,8,6 and 4 increase the weight by about 15% each time.  I lifted 95, 100, 110, 120 lbs.  Then did 2 sets of 8 low rows with 35 lbs.  Also, 2 sets of 8 incline press, 50 lbs, same for 2 sets of 8 shoulder press.  Got really good abs done today work!!!  A sets of two min abs, 2 sets of 10 back extensions with a 30 lb weight, and did the vertical assault ab workout for the first time in a while!  Made me realize how out of shape my abs are!!!  But made it through it!!  Excited to get back in shape and get going on the outdoor season!!  Hopefully the weather stays this nice!!!

little biking!

Got on the bike today for like 20 mins.  Knee felt good for the most part, noticed it just a little towards the middle of the ride.  Then extended 2 mins abs to 5 min abs.  Getting ready to head back tomorrow! been great to be at home and relax some! Def not ready to be back in normal schedule after tom!!!

some lifting...

Cannot believe how sore I am today after what little running I did yesterday!  Knee has felt pretty good afterwards though, def a good sign.  Got in a little it of lifting tonite.  Fun ab workout.  Then 3 sets of 8 bench at 95 lbs.  3 sets of 10 dips. 3 sets of 10 shoulder press. 3 sets of 10 push ups. 3 sets of 10 flys with 8lbs each. 3 sets of curls with 8 lbs each.  Arms are still a little sore from tuesday... At least I feel like I accomplished something this week, even if I could not run...

Also, Congrats to Dira on her 9th place finish in nationals today!  And Rich is sitting on top of the heptathlon at the end of the first day!  It would be great if he could win it all!

little running

After a great visit to Millersville with Meghan, I got to try to run some today.  Maggie told me that every other day I can do about 20 mins of running or biking.  Today was the most gorgeous day of break!! So, I went out and ran around the neighborhood.  The sidewalk hurt, but when I moved to the black top I was able to keep going.  Hopefully itll continue to get better so I can run real workouts when I get back to school next week.

keeping busy

Since I am not allowed to do cardio or any other sort of leg workout, I have decided to that I will work on my upper body lifting and abs.  Yesterday, I started off with just some push ups.  Today, I really got work done.
Upper stuff--3 sets of 10 bench at 85 lbs; 3 sets of 10 rows at 50 lbs; 3 sets of 10 curls at 30lbs; 3 sets of 10 dibs; 3 sets of 7,7,7s with 8 lbs each; 3 sets of 10 military press with 30 lbs;
Abs--3 sets of twisting pulses; 3 sets of 1 min 6" crosses; 3 sets of decline sit ups with 25lbs; 3 sets of 10 roman twists with 25 lbs; 3 sets of 25 side crunches on each side; 3 sets of 2 min abs;
Also did my rehab and stretched.  Supposed to talk to Maggie tomorrow find out how she wants me to spend the rest of the week.

V tech and spring break

No heighted at tech, not happy.  Now Ive got to refocus on outdoor.  Over break, I am supposed to let my knee recover, so I cannot do much.  Happy to be home, and hoping the outdoor will go better than indoor this year.  Best of luck to Rich and Dira as they compete at nationals in Iowa this week!!!!

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